[Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon globalWikimedianprinciples

Mon Aug 4 17:34:07 UTC 2008

Thank god someone was paying attention and noticed Wikinews wasn't GFDL. I
was busy compiling a list of people to flame into smoking craters until you
started shouting about this. Don't dictate to smaller projects, an 800lb
gorilla throwing its weight around is just going to end up being attacked
with biplanes fitted with machine guns.

Now, where did I put those goggles I stole off Biggles?

Brian McNeil

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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
Whitworth
Sent: 04 August 2008 17:24
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon
globalWikimedianprinciples

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Ting Chen <Wing.Philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
> We have some fundamental rules, that at least theoretically should be
>implemented on all projects. That all content are under GFDL and should
thus be
>granted free for ever is one of these rules. NPOV is another such rule.
Openness is
>also a foundamental rule of all WikiMedia projects.

Again, and I really can't stress this enough: These "fundamental
rules" are not global! en.wikinews DOES NOT USE THE GFDL. It uses
CC-BY instead, which is still free but isn't the same thing.
en.wikiversity, en.wikisource, and en.wikiquote have very different
meanings for NPOV then en.wikiversity does. Do yourself a favor and
check out WV's policy page on the matter:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WV:NPOV

--Andrew Whitworth

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